They do a good job for Martha's purposes—she's not using them in a war in Gaza or delivering packages through the air—she's taking boring pics of her barns. Any weirdo with sharpened knitting needles can navigate her property by memory now—and some have! Check out that creepy comments section!—but the only privacy she is compromising is her own. Americans don't have a problem with drone users like Martha for this reason, until there are drone users not like Martha..

Alhough privately-owned drones are still slogging through murky legal waters, it's only a matter of time until we're getting pizza delivered by one. But once every American with enough dough owns a drone, how can we ensure that they won't become weaponized?

It is, in fact, a little cool that Martha is zipping a Parrot AR.Drone over her home, but drones are ripe for abuse. This isn't some paranoid dystopian futurescape—some guy, this year, confirmed how easy it was to strap dynamite to the $299 surveillance drone purchased from Brookstone.

In 2013 65% of Americans said they approved of attacking terrorists abroad with drones—what's stopping us from using this destructive technology against our own?

We've seen what the weaponized robots are doing in the Middle East. Along the Lebanese border, soldiers are on constant lookout for unmanned aircraft. In the last 18 months, drones piloted by Hezbollah have filled Israeli airspace, the New Republic reports.

Just this morning, Israel shot down the first drone operated by the Palestinian militant group, Hamas. The group then posted a video of a drone armed with four small rockets or missiles under its wings. This is the future of global warfare.